Dialogue with Ceauşescu

director: Ion Grigorescu

original title: Dialog cu Ceauşescu

country: Romania

year: 1978

running time: 7 min.

synopsis

In a silent recording of a studio performance, filmed twice in succession on the same 8mm film, Ion Grigorescu, wearing the mask of the Romanian president, sits in a chair next to Ion Grigorescu, both facing the camera, alternately delivering speeches whose fading, illegible transcript partially over-laps the depicted scene of an imaginary dialogue between a citizen and totalitarian power.

MNAC Bucharest – The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Romania

biography

Ion Grigorescu (1945), filmmaker, conceptual artist, photographer, painter, author of collages and comics. In 2007, he followed up his film Interview with Ceaușescu with a video called Post-Mortem Interview with Ceaușescu.